Re: old hardware

On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:07:00 +0000, B'ichela wrote:

In article <p-OdncVYyJNwE8HbnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Scott Alfter
wrote:
In article <pan.2007.05.29.16.43.17@xxxxxxxxx>, General Schvantzkoph
<schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You'll be a lot happier if you add some RAM to that system. The
processor is fast enough for any distro but you'll have trouble with
256M if you want to run Gnome or KDE. I gave my sister a 500MHz PIII
Laptop with 384M of RAM and Fedora Core 5. It works fine for e-mail and
web browsing but I can't compile a kernel on it.

Something's wrong with your config if you can't build a kernel in 256
MB. I
He never said how big the Hard drive on the box was. Like many
older laptops... they (until recently) were kinda small on most models.
The Kernal source is NOT puny either! BTW OP how BIG is your Hard drive
in your sisters Laptop?

It has an 80G drive, I upgraded it from the original. For some reason
kernel builds core dump on this system. At one time it had 512M and it
was able to build kernels without a problem. The reason it's down to 384
is that one DIMM died and I had to replace it with one of the original
DIMMS that came with the machine. The system passes Memtest86 so I don't
think it has any other memory problems. Also it's stable for everything
except kernel builds.
.

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